Nice work if you can hack it, says survey du jour

What fills in your time when sudoku palls? Try counting the vacuous surveys and polls run by people in search of a quick early page lead. Or start and finish with last week's undoubted champion, courtesy of the marketing manager at City and Guilds.

Media workers, its poll disclosed, come in 14th in a poll of Britain's happiest workers, scoring 8.13 out of 10, up from 7.6 in 2005. They 'enjoy their careers more than bankers, architects and lawyers - but not as much as social workers, chartered engineers and the clergy'. Next year, maybe, they could try setting lawyers waving libel writs on to inanely grinning hacks and see if it makes a difference.